Hyperconnected urban fulfillment and delivery

•A Physical Internet based urban fulfillment and delivery system is designed.•Scenarios for gradual transformation show significant marginal impacts.•We modeled a comprehensive system and decision architecture.•We built an optimization supported agent-based simulation platform.•The potential benefit...

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Published in:	Transportation research. Part E, Logistics and transportation review Vol. 145; p. 102104
Main Authors:	Kim, Nayeon, Montreuil, Benoit, Klibi, Walid, Kholgade, Nitish
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Elsevier Ltd 01-01-2021 Elsevier
Subjects:	Agent-based simulation Humanities and Social Sciences Hyperconnected logistics system Large-item logistics Last-mile delivery Physical internet (PI) Urban logistics Hyperconnected logistics system Urban logistics Last-mile delivery Agent-based simulation Large-item logistics Physical internet (PI)
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Summary:	•A Physical Internet based urban fulfillment and delivery system is designed.•Scenarios for gradual transformation show significant marginal impacts.•We modeled a comprehensive system and decision architecture.•We built an optimization supported agent-based simulation platform.•The potential benefits of hyperconnected system is assessed via scenario analysis. Urban last-mile delivery faces great challenges to satisfy growing customer demand with faster, punctual delivery expectations, under tight budgets and environmental requirements. The recently introduced physical internet (PI) offers a conceptual framework to address these challenges, overcoming low efficiency of current fragmented logistics operations with seamless asset sharing and flow consolidation leveraging hyperconnected systems. This article first provides a decision and system architecture for hyperconnected urban logistics, then investigates its potential at a strategic level through a simulation-based experiment in the context of large-item delivery. The results clearly demonstrate the potential of hyperconnected urban logsitics by concurrently improving often opposing measures: economic efficiency, service capability and sustainability.
ISSN:	1366-5545 1878-5794
DOI:	10.1016/j.tre.2020.102104